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DâM-FunK

DâM-FunK


Modern funk guru Damon Riddick (aka Dâm-Funk) is both a traditionalist and an innovator.
He's a triple threat: A musician, vocalist, and producer. He hails from Pasadena, California. Pronounced "Dame Funk". Ever since his breakthrough 2009 album, Toeachizown, Damon "Dam-Funk" Riddick has used his internet celebrity to celebrate the funk and R&B stars of his childhood. On 2015's Invite the Light, he enlists a 1970s funk original (Junie Morrison of the Ohio Players), a G-funk hip-hop legend (Snoop Dogg), and a new-age psychedelic eccentric (Ariel Pink)- all on one album! Dâm-Funk might seem like a revivalist mining a decades old aesthetic, but instead of a carefully executed schtick, his music is revelatory: funk is timeless, and evolving. And he has an inimitable knack for conjuring it up. Funk has always concerned itself with liberation, and Dâm-Funk has long been an advocate for funk-as-freedom; he’d like nothing more than to lift your mind, your body, and your soul away from whatever’s holding it down. "Free", the closing track of Dâm’s wordless STFU EP, is a luxuriant ride from the boulevard to beyond the stratosphere. Over a bed of head-snap drums, twinkling Casios, and blunted bass, Dâm breezes down the block and off into the unknown. The eight-minute "Free" is a masterfully composed track, tidy as a clean room and filthy as a Black & Mild-stuffed ashtray, every chiming piano and wriggling keytar hanging, seemingly, in midair. More than that, though, it’s a testament to Dâm’s ability to make the music of the past—the mechanized precision of post-disco R&B and the subwoofer-decimating synths of left-coast g-funk—feel an awful lot like the future. It’s like the man said: Open up your funky mind, and you can fly.  DâM-FunK has a love for funk deeper than anyone on the planet right now. DâM-FunK is known for his legendary DJ sets and he finally released an official mix in 2016 as part of the DJ-Kicks series. Who doesn't love funk? This mix lets you partake in the multi-direction funk-loving session, it includes rare cuts from the first wave of funk and some of the best modern proponents in the art of funk, including an exclusive DâM-FunK track, “Believer.” Also, check out this awesome performance with the late Mac Miller [Damon's the one with the keytar!]. All hail the funk…
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